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Seasonable tokens are about. Red berries shine here and there in the lattices of Minor Canon Corner; Mr. and Mrs. Tope are daintily sticking sprigs of holly into the carvings and sconces of the Cathedral stalls, as if they were sticking them into the coat-button-holes of the Dean and Chapter. Lavish profusion is in the shops: particularly in the articles of currants, raisins, spices, candied peel, and moist sugar. An unusual air of gallantry and dissipation is abroad; evinced in an immense bunch of mistletoe hanging in the greengrocer’s shop doorway, and a poor little Twelfth Cake, culminating in the figure of a Harlequin—such a very poor little Twelfth Cake, that one would rather called it a Twenty-fourth Cake or a Forty-eighth Cake—to be raffled for at the pastrycook’s, terms one shilling per member.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, chap. XIV

Bazzard: My favourite Charles Dickens character

Bazzard - from The Mystery of Edwin Drood - is emblematic of all those who hang about in the shadows and he is the twenty-fifth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters.

The Notts expert who tried to unravel the mystery of Charles Dickens' final novel

The date was October 11, 1913. A Nottingham diarist by the name of Sydney Race was trying to solve a puzzle – the ending of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens’ final, unfinished novel.

In a bid to find the answer that had puzzled Dickens’ fans since his death 40 years earlier – and continues to intrigue devotees today – Race travelled to London to meet Dickens’ daughter Kate Perugini.

Kent Lyons is designing six newspapers and accompanying iPad apps which will be published in serialised form to mark this year’s bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth.

Reasons to be cheerful in 2012: the resurrection of Charles Dickens

It may be 142 years since he died, but one of England’s greatest ever novelists is perhaps more in the spotlight now than ever – what the Dickens is going on? 

Dickens book sales boosted by television adaptations

Sales of Charles Dickens books have been bolstered by a slew of TV adaptations, figures have revealed.

Should unfinished works be left untouched?

It’s infuriating that of all the works he could have left unfinished, Dickens managed to die in the middle of a murder mystery.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood: BBC Two, review

Gerard O’Donovan reviews the concluding part of the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’s unfinished Gothic novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens's last mystery finally solved?

Only its author, Charles Dickens, knew how the story was meant to end and his death in 1870 put paid to any hopes of readers ever knowing for certain what its outcome was supposed to be.

Now, a major new BBC adaptation of Dickens’s final work attempts to solve the unsolvable.

Edwin Drood: The mysterious appeal of Dickens' darkest tale

Gwyneth Hughes explains how she adapted a great literary whodunit for TV

A Dickens of a mystery: Countless writers have tried to complete novelist’s unfinished The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. Now BBC2 has had a crack at it

The Mystery Of Edwin Drood is a Charles Dickens story about a choirmaster’s obsession with a beautiful young woman. But a different kind of obsession has developed since Dickens last put pen to paper on the novel 142 years ago: How should the story end?

The Mystery of Edwin Drood: A Dickens of a whodunnit

Charles Dickens died before he could finish his last novel. So crime-writer Gwyneth Hughes set out to complete it for a new BBC version – and soon wished she hadn’t

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Original illustrations by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes for Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

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Why Charles Dickens’ novels make great TV As the BBC adapts Great Expectations and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the writers and producers explain Dickens’ appeal

Why Charles Dickens’ novels make great TV

As the BBC adapts Great Expectations and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the writers and producers explain Dickens’ appeal

What the Dickens - rare paintings uncovered in Dunedin

The works depict scenes from many of Dickens’ novels, including The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Great Expectations and his final, unfinished novel, Edwin Drood.